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• Organic semiconductors key to cheap solar cells
  , Yung Cheng Lee. To fully integrate nanotechnology into cell phones, automobiles, and defense applications, will take a more fundamental understanding of carbon nanotubes and various nanowires, he says. To that end, the Darpa Focus Center on Nanoscale Science and Technology for Integrated Micro...
• Lower Operating Costs and Improved Productivity of Semiconductor Equipment using Remote Predictive and Preventative Maintenance Tools
  number of litho tools required for high volume. manufacturing. The Lithography process defines and aligns the chip layers at the nanoscale level. It. requires multiple passes through the equipment with each subsequent process pass being. of more value (higher cost) than the previous one. Therefore...
• MICRO: CMOS Extension
  New report examines challenges of CMOS extension and beyond The post-CMOS world of device manufacturing holds great promise and poses many challenges. A nanoscale world that boasts spin logic, quantum cellular automata, and molecular devices presents the semiconductor industry with formidable...
• MICRO: Classifying defects for copper CMP process modules
  exposure to nanoscale particulate media (i.e., slurry), exposure to reaction and polish by-products, and interactions with previous process steps. CMP is one of the most critical operations in semiconductor fabrication because yield is extremely sensitive to CMP performance. CMP is used at. MICRO...
• MICRO: Reality Check
  Meeting the Nanoscale Device Fabrication Challenge True, Integrated Design for Manufacturability Must be Implemented is chief technology officer and senior vice president, semiconductor technology research, for The Noblemen Group, a boutique investment banking, strategic advisory, and business...
• Pencils point way to novel nanocircuits
  Graphite, the material in pencils, could form the basis for a new class of nanoscale electronic devices. A proof-of-principle device made of graphene. Using thin layers of graphite called graphene, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centre National de la Recherche...
• MICRO: Reality Check
  viability as an operationally practical option for nanoscale chip manufacturing. Still, the potential for huge cost advantages makes it an intriguing NGL candidate. Capability, operational efficiency, and economics must drive the final decision on choosing the right lithography technology. Economics...
• MICRO: Reality Check
  processes, with changes under way that will directly affect transistor architecture and design. Leakage, heat, and power have emerged as top technical challenges in the nanoscale regime. With each technology node, the off-state device leakage, the total device active and leakage power consumption...
• Carbon Nanotubes Outperform Copper Nanowires as Interconnects
  . "Given the data we collected, we believe that carbon nanotubes at 45 nanometers will outperform copper nanowire." The research results will be featured in the March issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Because of the nanoscale size of interconnects, they are subject to quantum phenomena...
• MICRO: ITRS Update
  . Immersion lithography debuts, as do so-called nonclassical CMOS devices and post-CMOS products such as nanoscale devices with variable logic states. One of the major changes to the latest roadmap is the return to a three-year technology node cycle, stretching out the timeline between 130- and 90-nm...

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